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> Truly English spelling is a delight for historical linguists.

The worst part to me is that many (often older) loan words have anglicized pronunciation, while other loan words keep their original pronunciation.



Sometimes we borrow a word multiple times!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics)

e.g.

> chief, chef, cape, capo, caput and head (French (twice), Latin via French, Italian, Latin, and Germanic, all from the same Indo-European word *ka(u)put "head")




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